Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3

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client as an

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Microsoft Azure RemoteApp helps you provide secure, remote access to applications from many different user devices. This white paper walks you through the process of deploying the Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 client as a RemoteApp application.

White paper Haytham Said November 2015

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Contents

Prepare the image 4

Import the template image (Optional) 10

Create a hybrid deployment of RemoteApp that uses a VNet (Standard Plan and Premium (HA)) 13 Select the imported image, or import directly from the image repository 14

Create an Azure AD directory 16

Sync users from your local AD DS directory to Azure AD 17

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Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program

Microsoft Azure RemoteApp brings the functionality of the on-premises Microsoft RemoteApp program, which is backed by Remote Desktop Services, to Azure. Azure RemoteApp helps you provide secure, remote access to applications from many different user devices.

When you move RemoteApp to Azure, you can take advantage of the storage, scalability, and global reach of Azure without having to worry about a complex on-premises configuration. Microsoft provides maintenance of Azure, which ensures its reliability and lets you focus on more important issues, such as creating the best apps for your business. Another advantage of Azure RemoteApp is its accessibility—your users can access RemoteApp programs from Microsoft Windows, iOS, Mac OS X, and Android devices. They can use your apps in the environment that they prefer, while you use the Azure portal to manage those apps.

Azure RemoteApp lets IT teams empower their workforce to use any app that can run on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 on a variety of devices—and all of this is based in the Azure cloud, where it can easily be scaled and updated.

Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 is a business solution that supports both operational and administrative processes of organizations. This single solution comes with localizations—in the box—for 36 countries/regions. Microsoft Dynamics AX has a specialized focus on manufacturing, retail, service industries, and public sector, and includes capabilities such as financial management, manufacturing, retail, business intelligence and reporting, supply chain management, and human capital management.

AX 2012 R3 is certified to run on the Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform. By using Microsoft Dynamics Lifecycle Services (LCS), you can deploy several AX 2012 R3 topologies to your Azure cloud in just a few clicks. One of the great features of Azure RemoteApp is that you can plug it into your infrastructure and deploy the

Microsoft Dynamics AX client. This white paper walks you through the process of deploying the AX 2012 R3 client as an Azure RemoteApp application. It includes sections for the following steps:

1 Prepare the image.

2 Import the template image into the RemoteApp template images repository. 3 Create the collection.

4 Select the imported image, or import it directly from the image repository. 5 Create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) directory.

6 Sync users from your local Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) directory to Azure AD. 7 Download the RemoteApp client, and connect to AX 2012 R3.

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Prepare the image

This white paper assumes that you have already deployed AX 2012 R3 CU8 or CU9 by using Lifecycle Services. 1 On your computer, install Azure PowerShell and Open PowerShell ISE. (For instructions, see How to install and

configure Azure PowerShell.)

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 5 3 Go to the Azure portal, and make a note of your LCS-created storage account name, subscription name, and

LCS-created cloud service name. (We recommend that you choose all of these after LCS deployment. Make sure that your Cloud service and storage account are deployed in the same Region.)

4 In Notepad, edit the script that is provided, and enter the information that you noted in the previous step. You must also uncomment the release you want to deploy (CU8 or CU9).

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 6 5 Run the script from PowerShell ISE.

When the script has finished running, you should see the following output.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 7 7 Right-click the Start button, and then click Command Prompt (Admin).

8 Enter the following command.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 8 9 After the process is completed, go to the Azure portal, select your cloud service, and then select the VM that you

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 10 11 In the dialog box, enter a name and description for the image, and then select the I have run Sysprep on the

virtual machine check box. (Note that the VM will be deleted.)

12 After the process is completed, click Virtual machines > Images, and make sure that your image is registered.

Import the template image (Optional)

Note: If you want to maintain different images in your RemoteApp image repository, complete this procedure. If not, skip to the next procedure: Create a hybrid deployment of RemoteApp that uses a VNet (Standard Plan (Test) and Premium (HA)).

1 Go to the Azure portal.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 11 4 Click Import or upload a template image.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 12 6 Select your Microsoft Dynamics AX RemoteApp image, and then select the confirmation check box.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 13 When the RemoteApp image has been imported, the status changes to Ready.

Create a hybrid deployment of RemoteApp that uses a

VNet (Standard Plan and Premium (HA))

1 Click RemoteApp collections.

2 Click Create a RemoteApp collection.

3 Select Create with VNet, select the virtual network that your servers belong to, and then select the subnet to deploy your collection to. Make sure that the Join local domain option is set to Yes.

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Select the imported image, or import directly from the

image repository

1 The status of the collection that you created should be Input Required. Click the collection.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 15 3 Click Link an existing template image, and then select the template image.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 16 4 Wait until provisioning for the collection is completed.

Create an Azure AD directory

Now that you have created your RemoteApp collection, you must add the users who should be able to use your remote resources. The users that you provide access to must exist in the Active Directory tenant that is associated with the subscription that you used to create the RemoteApp collection.

1 In the navigation pane in the Azure portal, click Active Directory, and create a new directory. (Later, you will have to change your subscription to this directory.)

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Sync users from your local AD DS directory to Azure AD

1 Select the directory that you just created. Click Directory integration, activate the directory, and then save your changes.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 18 3 Follow the steps in Integrating your on-premises identities with Azure Active Directory. Be sure to create an

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 19 Note: After you click Create, you will be prompted to change the temporary password that is generated. In

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 20 the user that you just created and the temporary password, and then change the password. You can also add this user as a co-admin from the Settings menu in the Azure portal and then associate it with your subscription.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 21 5 On the Connect to AD DS page, select the Sync Service user account or the administrator account. In the

following screen shot, @contoso.com represents your local domain.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 22 7 In the Azure portal, click Active Directory, and go to your directory. Check the Last sync status.

8 Go to your Active Directory domain controller. Right-click your Active Directory domain, and then click

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 23 After a while, synchronization should start, and you will see the users synced to your Azure AD directory, as

shown here.

9 Go back to your Active Directory machine, and open Active Directory Users and Computers. Right-click a user (in this example, we are using Sara Thomas), click Properties, and then, on the Account tab, select the local Active Directory domain name and user principal name (UPN) suffix from step 8.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 24 11 Select your collection, and then click User access. Then add your users in the following format:

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 25 Note: Validation will fail if you did not associate your subscription with your new directory. You can create this

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Download the RemoteApp client and connect to

AX 2012 R3

After a user is validated, go to https://www.remoteapp.windowsazure.com/ on any device that you want. In the upper-right corner, select Install client.

In some cases, you will receive a “Service not available” error message, because the default IP address of the load balancer differs from the IP address of your Application Object Server (AOS) load balancer. In this case, you must change the IP address of your AOS load balancer by changing your host files to match your environment. Note: The default IP address in the host file entry is 10.1.1.6 AOSLoadBalancer.

Follow these steps to change the IP address of your AOS load balancer.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 27 3 Make a note of the LoadBalancer IP address (highlighted yellow in the following screen shot). We will use it later.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 28 5 Click Server Manager, click Tools, and then select DNS.

Deploy the client as an Azure RemoteApp program 29 7 Enter the properties for 10.1.1.x AOSLoadBalancer by using the IP address that you noted in step 4.

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